Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers SE Radio 705: Murat Erder and Eoin Woods on Continuous Architecture
Jan 27, 2026
Murat Erder, CTO and author focused on architecture and data integration; Eoin Woods, consultant and author specializing in software architecture and green engineering. They discuss Continuous Architecture: making architectural decisions continuously, empowering teams to own decisions, using feedback loops and metrics, balancing upfront design with flexibility, governance that enables teams, and AI’s emerging role in architecture.
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Architecture As Continuous, Practical Work
- Continuous Architecture blends architectural rigor with agile delivery to keep architecture relevant and practical.
- The approach treats architecture as ongoing work focused on running software in production.
Prioritize Quality Attributes
- Focus your design on quality attributes like security, performance, and maintainability rather than only boxes and lines.
- Make those attributes visible and lived by the team, not just an architect's checklist.
Delay Decisions Until Necessary
- Delay design decisions until you have enough context and information to choose wisely.
- Make early decisions only when they're risky or irreversible and plan when you'll need to decide.
